Fatal Accident in Grand-Bel-Air - Surviving Twins Leave Hospital

Nine days after the tragic accident in Grand-Bel-Air, which claimed the lives of their mother Alexina Aristide, 55, and her partner Chelikani Naden, 58, twins Floran and Florine Mava, aged 14, were discharged from Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital in Rose-Belle on Tuesday, April 28. Suffering from multiple fractures, the two teenagers now face a long and challenging physical and emotional recovery.

While their relatives had planned to wait until the twins returned home to inform them of their mother's death, they ultimately received the news while still in their hospital beds.

Life will never be the same for these twins who lived with their mother in Rose-Belle. Jean Shirley Mava (Kiss), their father who had been separated from their mother for some time, now strives to be a pillar of support for them. Like his family, he struggled to find the right way to tell the children that their mother had been taken from them in the car accident that occurred on the morning of Monday, April 20.

The truth had to be revealed.

It was Florine's desire to see her mother that hastened this revelation. "I had made my daughter believe that her mother was admitted to Victoria Hospital. She wanted to visit her," Kiss explains. The doctors advised the father to tell the children the truth in the hospital to prevent a more severe shock when they returned home. "We gathered around Florine to deliver the sad news," the father recounts.

The teenager's reaction was heartbreaking. She picked up a sketchbook and drew a portrait of her mother, along with a cross, a chain, and wrote a prayer. Her father tried to comfort her.

The news was also shared with her twin. "My son was devastated, but he told us he suspected that his mother had perished in the accident." On Tuesday, April 28, the twins were allowed to leave the hospital. Additionally, Jean Denis Bacoye, another son of Alexina who was also injured, was discharged from intensive care. "He is doing better and is able to eat. He is being monitored in a room."

Reconstruction

The accident has left deep scars. Still recovering, Floran and Florine move around in wheelchairs and were welcomed by their uncle. "My two children are in wheelchairs. They are with their uncle, their mother's brother. It's a bit bigger there than in my place," the father confides.

On Wednesday, the family gathered for prayers on the eighth day following the funeral. Now, these two young ones must learn to grow up without the one who was their anchor, supported by the love of their family.